Nabokov’s Otherworld (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir E. Alexandrov
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Nature, Literature, Art or artists, Spiritual life or spirituality, Obsession, Metaphysics, Transcendentalism, Chess or chess players, Skepticism, Poetics
Although Vladimir Nabokov’s popular reputation is based on the sensational reception his nymphet novel Lolita (1955) received when it was published squarely in the middle of the conservative 1950’s, his critical recognition rests on a substantial body of fiction both in Russian and in English in which he delights in playing games with the nature of narrative and in examining reality as a fictional construct. In most of Nabokov’s work, reality is, by definition, an artificial, rule-bound game, much as chess is a patterned game or a work of fiction is a created construct....
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